Cohda is to retrofit 500 public and fleet vehicles with a Cohda Wireless On-Board Unit (OBU), allowing those vehicles to communicate with roadside Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS), and with each other — V2V (vehicle to vehicle) and V2I (vehicle to infrastructure).

In addition the the OBU, Cohda Wireless is supplying and fitting the in-vehicle display screens, conveying alerts and messages to the drivers.

What sort of alerts and messages?

These are some of the potential dangers that can be conveyed to the driver from this nexus of communications between vehicles and infrastructure:

Hazard warning (V2I) – upcoming hazards, such as water on the road, road closures, or a crash

Cohda Wireless CEO Dr Paul Gray, said, ‘We firmly believe that the Ipswich Connected Vehicle Pilot will contribute significantly to the advancement of a connected and cooperative road transport environment in Australia and we are delighted to be a partner in it. We are particularly excited about being involved in an initiative of this scale and magnitude that has connectivity at its core. We believe that connecting road users and infrastructure is critical.’

C-ITS central

Ipswich and south-east Queensland is a busy part of the C-ITS world right now. In addition to the 500-vehicle C-ITS Field Operational Test, iMOVE and the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads have three other projects running in that part of the world: